Table 1.
Patient general characteristics and deaths at 30, 180 and after 180 days mortality from admission (N = 6.986). Lazio Region, Italy, 2006-2007
| DEATHS % | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variables | Characteristics |
Patients N % |
30 days (N = 437) | 30-180 days (N = 777) | > 180 days (N = 581) |
Total (N = 1,795) |
|
| Age | 65-74 | 1,067 | 15.5 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 4.4 | 11.2 |
| 75-84 | 3,103 | 45.0 | 4.2 | 9.0 | 7.5 | 20.8 | |
| 85+ | 2,726 | 39.5 | 9.8 | 16.9 | 11.0 | 37.8 | |
| Gender | Female | 5,387 | 78.1 | 5.0 | 10.0 | 7.9 | 23.0 |
| Males | 1,509 | 21.9 | 11.1 | 15.6 | 10.1 | 36.9 | |
| Marital Status | Married | 3,574 | 51.8 | 5.0 | 10.4 | 8.1 | 23.6 |
| Not married | 3,322 | 48.2 | 7.6 | 12.2 | 8.8 | 28.6 | |
| Years of education | ≤ 8 years | 855 | 12.4 | 5.2 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 20.5 |
| > 8 years | 6,041 | 87.6 | 6.5 | 11.8 | 8.5 | 26.8 | |
| Type of fracture | Neck of femur | 6,378 | 92.5 | 6.3 | 11.3 | 8.5 | 26.2 |
| Other parts of femur | 518 | 7.5 | 6.6 | 10.8 | 7.1 | 24.5 | |
| Surgical delay | Conservative treatment | 1,117 | 16.2 | 16.2 | 15.9 | 10.3 | 42.5 |
| 0-2 days | 808 | 11.7 | 4.6 | 8.4 | 9.8 | 22.8 | |
| 2 days or more | 4,971 | 72.1 | 4.4 | 7.1 | 7.8 | 19.2 | |
| Hospital annual hip fracture surgeries volume | ≤ 45 | 548 | 7.9 | 5.1 | 6.8 | 9.1 | 21.0 |
| 46-200 | 3,914 | 56.8 | 6.4 | 12.3 | 8.5 | 27.2 | |
| > 200 | 2,434 | 35.3 | 6.5 | 10.6 | 8.2 | 25.3 | |
| Rehabilitation care access | yes | 3,404 | 49.4 | 0.9 | 9.6 | 8.2 | 18.7 |
| no | 3,492 | 50.6 | 11.7 | 12.9 | 8.6 | 33.2 | |
| Hospital readmissions | yes | 1,388 | 20.1 | 1.2 | 23.3 | 14.6 | 39.0 |
| no | 5,508 | 79.9 | 7.6 | 8.2 | 6.9 | 22.7 | |
| Total | 6,896 | 100.0 | 6.3 | 11.3 | 8.4 | 26.0 | |
| % of in-hospital-mortality during first hospital admission out of the total deaths | 65.9 | 7.4 | 0.0 | 19.2 | |||